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Culture | Geography | Organization | Technology

Click on to "Student Projects" below for
the Cultural, Geographical, Organizational, and Technological
Aspects of Water Projects in the West

Culture
- Settlers move to dominate the landscape
- Goals: profit and progress
- Indian perspective: sanctity of natural world
- Modernity has hierarchically reorganized tribes
- Description: Reclamation Employee Organization for Ethics and Integrity
- Sleeping Ute Mountain: warrior protecting Utes
- Ute Mountain Utes culture
- Umatilla Indian culture
Geography
- Bureau of Reclamations in Denver and Colorado
- Settler perspective v. Indians
- View that the earth is a living creature
- Settlers reach semi-arid blockade to expansion
- Environment as back-seat issue
- Sleeping Ute Mountain
- Ancient trading network around Sleeping Ute
- Water crucial to growth
- Proposals to scrap ALP
- Description of American West
- State law and water rights
Organization
- Bureau of Reclamations established
- Bureau of Reclamations Cutting Hundreds of Jobs
- Bureau of Reclamations transformation
- More on BuRec's transformation to "steward"
- Consequence of view of water as resource
- Traditions v. profts
- Animas La Plata conflict issues
- Alternatives to ALP
- ALP Opponents' v. Support
- Whistleblowing on BuRec's "water giveaway"
- Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
- ALP promised as last big project
- End of big dam era?
- Government dam-building record
- Water supply necessary to sustain growth
- Government conservation experiments
- Description: Animas La Plata
- ALP: costs v. benefits
- ALP plans
- Description: Ute Mountain Utes
- Growth in West beyond expectations
- Doctrine of prior appropriation
- Supreme Court decision: Winters v. United States
- Ute Mountain Utes' suit to recover reserved water rights
- Opposition to ALP
Technology
- Description: ALP technical
- Description: more technical info on ALP
- More technical description of ALP
- Indians controlling own natural resources
- Environment: concerns of ALP effects on salt concentrations
- Government conservation experiments
- Government's dam-building
- ALP: costs v. benefits
- BuRec's initial mission

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